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{{short description|German historian, cartographer, physician and humanist (1440–1514)}}
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[[Image:Schedel erfurt.jpg|thumb|Opening from the ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'', showing [[Erfurt]]]]
[[Image:Rhodos1493.png|thumb|1493 Woodcut of the City of [[Rhodes]], by Hartmann Schedel]]

'''Hartmann Schedel''' (13 February 1440 – 28 November 1514) was a German [[historian]], physician, [[Renaissance humanism|humanist]], and one of the first [[cartographer]]s to use the [[printing press]]. He was born and died in [[Nuremberg]].  [[Matheolus Perusinus]] served as his [[tutor]]. 

Schedel is best known for his writing the text for the ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]'', known as ''Schedelsche Weltchronik'' (English: ''Schedel's World Chronicle''), published in 1493 in Nuremberg.  It was commissioned by Sebald Schreyer (1446–1520) and Sebastian Kammermeister (1446–1503).<ref>Hartmann Schedule, Weltchronik, Kolorierte Gesamtausgabe von 1493, Einleitung und cementer Stephen Füssel, Weltbild Verlag</ref>  Maps in the ''Chronicle'' were the first ever illustrations of many cities and countries.

With the [[movable type|invention of the printing press]] by [[Johannes Gutenberg]] in 1447, it became feasible to print books and maps for a larger customer basis. Because they had to be handwritten, books had previously been rare and very expensive.

Schedel was also a notable collector of books, art and [[old master print]]s. An album he had bound in 1504, which once contained five [[engraving]]s by [[Jacopo de' Barbari]], provides important evidence for dating de' Barbari's work.

== Gallery ==
<gallery>
File:Nuernberg schedel.JPG|Nuremberg
File:Nuremberg chronicles - CRACOVIA.png|[[Kraków]]
File:Nuremberg chronicles - BRESSLA.png|[[Breslau]] (Wrocław)
File:Praha1493.jpg|[[Prague]]
File:Hans Boehm Pfeifer von Niklashausen Schedelsche Weltchronik.JPG|Hans Böhm, the "Pauker von Niklashausen"
File:Schedel judenfeindlichkeit.jpg|[[Blood libel]]: the supposed killing of a Christian boy at the hands of Jews in Trient in 1475. [[Simon of Trent]]
File:Schedel judenfeindlichkeit2.jpg|Burning of Jews for the supposed desecration of sacramental wafers in Deggendorf, Bavaria in 1492
File:Schedel konstantinopel.jpg|[[Constantinople]] in 1493
File:Hartmann-schedel-hierosolima-1493 2-BW-1147x965.jpg|Jerusalem
File:Hartmann-schedel DESTRVCCIO-IHEROSOLIME 1493 1-1460x750.jpg|The destruction of Jerusalem by the Chaldeans
File:Nuremberg chronicles f 105r 1.png|[[Seneca the Younger|Death of Seneca]]
File:Aesopnurembergchronicle.jpg| [[Aesop]]
File:Nuremberg Chronicle World Map 1493 Cornell CUL PJM 1002 02.jpg|Uncolored [[Nuremberg Chronicle]] World Map (1493).
File:Colored woodcut town view of Florence.jpg|View of Florence by Hartmann Schedel, Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.
</gallery>

== Editions ==
* Hartmann Schedel: ''Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu [cum] figuris et imagibus [imaginibus] ab inicio mudi [mundi]''. [Nachdruck der Ausgabe Nürnberg, Koberger, 1493]. Ostfildern: Quantum Books, [2002?]. - CCXCIX, [51] S., {{ISBN|3-935293-04-6}}
* Hartmann Schedel: ''Register des Buchs der Croniken und geschichten mit figuren und pildnussen von anbeginn der welt bis auf dise unnsere Zeit''. [Durch Georgium Alten ... in diss Teutsch gebracht]. Reprint [der Ausg.] Nürnberg, Koberger, 1493, 1. Wiederdruck. München: Reprint-Verlag Kölbl, 1991. - [9], CCLXXXVI Bl., IDN: 947020551
* Hartmann Schedel: ''Weltchronik. Nachdruck [der] kolorierten Gesamtausgabe von 1493''. Einleitung und Kommentar von Stephan Füssel. Augsburg: Weltbild, 2004. - 680 S., {{ISBN|3-8289-0803-9}}
*Stephan Füssel (Hg.): ''Schedel'sche Weltchronik''. Taschen Verlag, Köln 2001. {{ISBN|3-8228-5725-4}}
*[http://www.obrasraras.usp.br/ Digitalisat der lateinischen Ausgabe] (mit brasil-portugiesischer Bedien-Oberfläche)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080922034156/http://mdz1.bib-bvb.de/~mdz/kurzauswahl.html?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmdz1.bib-bvb.de%2Fcocoon%2Fbsbink%2FExemplar_S-199%2C1.html Digitalisat der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130321014036/http://www.beloit.edu/nuremberg/inside/contents/index.htm Digitalisat der Beloit copy] (Morse Library, Beloit College, Beloit, WI 53511, United States)
* [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b2200022x Holzschnitte aus einem der Exemplare der Bibliothèque nationale de France]

==Notes==
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==Sources==
*Elisabeth Rücker: ''Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik, das größte Buchunternehmen der Dürerzeit''. Verlag Prestel, München 1988. {{ISBN|3-7913-0876-9}}
*Stephan Füssel (Hrsg.): ''500 Jahre Schedelsche Weltchronik''. Carl, Nürnberg 1994. {{ISBN|3-418-00372-9}}
*Peter Zahn: ''Hartmann Schedels Weltchronik. Bilanz der jüngeren Forschung''. In: Bibliotheksforum Bayern 24 (1996), 230–248
*Christoph Reske: ''Die Produktion der Schedelschen Weltchronik in Nürnberg''. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2000. {{ISBN|3-447-04296-6}}
*Michael Zellmann-Rohrer, Constantine Hadavas, Selim S. Nahas: ''Liber Chronicarum Translation Volume 1''. Boston. {{ISBN|978-0-9831407-2-6}}

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*{{commonsinline|Hartmann Schedel}}
*{{commonsinline|Schedelsche Weltchronik}}
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*{{Cite ADB|30|661|662|Schedel, Hartmann|Wilhelm Wattenbach|ADB:Schedel, Hartmann}}
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*[http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rosenwald.0166.1 Liber chronicarum.] Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 23 Dec. 1493. From the  [https://www.loc.gov/rr/rarebook/ Rare Book and Special Collections Division] at the [[Library of Congress]]

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